1. Welcome and Chair’s Remarks

3. President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri

5. Business Arising from the Minutes

New Degree and Graduate ProgramApproved at the FGS Academic Planning & Policy Committee meeting on March 18, 2015 and at Faculty Council October 1, 2015; and FGS Academic Planning & Policy Committee October 21, 2015; returned to Academic Planning & Policy Committee and returns to Council with external reviewer and response documentation

c) Graduate Program in EnglishChange in Course Weighting [add 3.0 to 6.0 offering]
English 6578 3.0: “Women Writing South Asia: Gender, Nation and the World”

d) Graduate Program in Environmental StudiesChanges in Course Titles and DescriptionsEnvironmental Studies 5106 3.0: from “Feminist Perspectives on Environmental Studies” to “Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender and the Environment”
Environmental Studies 6117 3.0: from “Ecology in Third World Development” to “Ecologies and Sustainability in the Global South”

e) Graduate Program in Law
Graduate Program in Law (Part-Time LLMs)Part-Time LLM Specializing in Canadian Common LawNew Course ProposalLaw 6515 6.0: “The Online Course in Canadian Administrative Law”
Law 6852 6.0: “The Online Course in Canadian Criminal Law”